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Precedent
is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which a question before a court has been decided is alone binding as a precedent, Uttaranchal Road Transport Corporation v. Mansaram
Self-defence
Self-defence, is a legal right and as with other legal rights the question whether a specific state of facts warrants its exercise is a legal question. It is not a question
Successor-in-interest
Successor-in-interest, 'successor-in-interest' the relevant facts to be taken into account in determining this question was explained by Gajendragadkar, J. in the following words: Did the purchaser purchase the whole of the business?
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Finding
Finding, the word 'finding', will only cover material questions which arise in a particular case for decision by the authority hearing the case or the appeal which,
Usual Covenants
Usual Covenants, covenants usually inserted in deeds having a similar scope to that in respect of which a question arises. The phrase occurs most frequently in connection with agreements for leases stipulating that the lease when granted
Further consideration
Further consideration, the postponed considera-tion by a judge of a cause or of some question in it. In the Chancery Division in actions for administra-tion, partition, and the like, it is usual at
Obiter dicta
Obiter dicta, in the course of the argument and decision of a case, not infrequently, many incidental questions arise which may be indirectly connected with the main question for considera-tion. The observations on such questions, whether
Decree
or final. It shall be deemed to include the rejection of a plaint and the determination of any question within s. 144, but shall not include' a) any adjudication from which an appeal lies as an appeal
Clumps
A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by
abstention
abstention : the staying of the exercise of federal jurisdiction in a case that involves a question of state law or policy which the federal court prefers to have resolved by a state court or
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